I Accidentally Bought an UNRELEASED GameCube Game...

[@SnackHeadCowboy]

Must be so heart warming for a dev to see this, that someone is enjoying a little thing they worked on years ago that got lost to time

[@robertheinrich2994]

and yet, that game is something that a marketing team dreamt up with quite some "white marching poweder", and the devs thought: well, at least I get paid for it. who thought, that this game is a good idea. at some point, some person got some sense and cancelled it.

[@RawrX32009]

​@@robertheinrich2994This comment is so embarrassing Bad taste moment

[@DANNY__JK]

definitely gotta ask the dad how far into development he thinks this disc is from

[@jumpmadmadness1222]

Ask your dad if he got friends with more unreleased games.

[@IAmComicallyCartoonyYKnow]

ask him history on development

[@TheSlimeKilling_Minecart]

Whose dad?

[@Theoneeyethatstaresatyou7244]

@@TheSlimeKilling_Minecart The seller gave cake his dad's email so he could ask him any questions about the game

[@Escaped-FromHellview]

Sounds like the father didn’t know this was being sold maybe

[@NihilistSolitude]

I would plug additional controllers in the other slot, some dev games give level select via that method

[@cakehoarder]

Interesting. Any more details on this method? Or just randomly plug in controllers 😂

[@DarkLink1996.]

​@@cakehoarderPlug in controllers, press buttons, document results

[@UnwittingSweater]

​@@DarkLink1996.Very simular to my love making technique.

[@onradioactivewaves]

It may also matter whether or not the controller is detected prior to boot or even afterwards.

[@StarzGecko]

Questions I would ask would be like: 1. What’s the history for this game? Like how did you guys come up with the idea for Pickles. 2. Is Pickles really the final name for the game? 3. Why was the game cancelled. 4. Was there plans to have more than 12 levels? 5. If there was bosses in the game. What kind of boss fights would players had face if the game had released?

[@JoeKyser]

They were going to name it hot peppers and settled on pickles. True story

[@Cybershell13]

damn that's crazy, the world needs to know more about Pickles

[@cakehoarder]

factual bro

[@ThePortalTurret]

No way cybershell???

[@MrNoobNub]

Cybershell?!

[@TheDreamcastLover]

Yo cybershell

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

OMG CYBERSHELL

[@StageRight123]

Heh, I was actually living in Santa Cruz, CA at the time Santa Cruz Games started their company in Santa Cruz, CA. Their office was right across the street from where I worked.

[@gamemassacre1251]

Glad it fell into your hands and not some greedy person wanting to keep it for themselves, imagine if phonenix resale got ahold of this

[@braderley]

I can’t wait for the inevitable collapse for those people

[@Official_RetroMania]

I couldn't agree more! The guy is a legend sending it to preserve it online getting dumped is amazing! We need preserve as much history as we can.

[@the_sid]

“the start to a bad creepy pasta” lmfao You got me when I clicked on this wasn’t sure if i was getting an ARG fabricated game, or legit unreleased prototype. Really cool, hopefully you can find a way to dump this and share it, who knows maybe people will love it enough to complete it!

[@Tastebud420]

"Accidentally bought" *proceeds to explain how item was purchased purposely. * 😂

[@winnipeginstinct]

Big W for preserving gaming history by dumping the roms of these alpha builds of unreleased games

[@Daniel15au]

This is a disk so it's an ISO, not a ROM.

[@matthewgerlach5775]

people still call them roms @@Daniel15au

[@Official_RetroMania]

​@@Daniel15au Most people call dumped files just "roms" and I think having a universal name is better and easier to understand. Yeah is technically speaking not the right term to use but well I get why people use it instead of iso, ccd, cue, img, bin...

[@icemuckbanggg]

​@@Official_RetroManiayes

[@shikabaneconga]

contact the cutting room floor and the preservation project immediately

[@glitchy_weasel]

It's not everyday someone makes a discovery like this, this is very cool! I wonder how many more forgotten, lost to time dev demos are out there.

[@zakariaoussete9638]

The GTA V for the Wii U 😮

[@TimRomero]

1:25 looks like you’re pulling the disc out of the ‘cube by its edges here. pressing down on the center of the GameCube’s disc spindle gently ejects the disc so you don’t have to pull as hard.

[@bhante1345]

If I had to pick between Martin Shkreli owning that one copy of a Wu-Tang album and you owning that only copy of Pickles, I'd choose you.

[@WordsInVain]

This is actually a very intriguing demo. What a shame it was never developed into a full game...

[@basedemp]

Was cool to do the research for this when you posted it on Twitter, like digging for lost treasure. Looking forward to seeing what dataminers may be able to come up with and the stories the developer is sure to provide us.

[@moreedcola6837]

Hopefully this gets dumped so Pickles can finally wheel its way onto the ‘net. By the way, any chance you could hand this game over to Hidden Palace or TCRF? They can dump it, analyse it for any unused content and keep it online for years to come.

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

This is like a creepy pasta but NO CREEPY

[@InternetExplorer-w2g]

It's just pasta

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

@@InternetExplorer-w2g yep

[@bobby.palacios]

Love how he says “important warning” like any of us can even play this 😂

[@Eg9b0i]

This is so cool that a piece of GameCube history has been found

[@Tailow1234]

This is amazing and answers a question I've had for years. I knew there had to be prototype disc out there in the world of games made but never released. This hopefully takes off and more disc are found in the near future. This is awesome!

[@maxb2000]

Accidental describes what was not planned or intended. It means "happening by accident" or "happening as an accident," as in "an accidental discovery" and "an accidental injury." **Incidental typically means "happening as a minor part or result of something else."**

[@Wrathgir]

Immediately after you said what questions you should ask the developer of Pickles. I thought of 3. What was the original story going to be of the game? What was the special ending thing after every level was going to be like? Did they have any unused character sketches or ideas that never made it to the prototype? These are just a few questions I felt like it needed answered.

[@justoad]

Toad is stuck inside that disc and has been waiting all those years to come out

[@simplisticguy]

MICHAEL, DONT LEAVE ME HERE! MICHAEL!

[@eeveefennecfox]

holy crap,talk about lost media without ever knowing it was lost to begin with

[@fireboltthunder2360]

Cool, we get to see an unreleased Gamecube title. It's even on a disc

[@jondo7680]

Are you telling me that the GameCube dev system had this insane color which is my favorite color? Being a GameCube dev must be the coolest thing ever.

[@sandakureva]

I really like seeing footage of games like this in early development. A lot of it kinda feels a bit like my own methods for developing games, but crunchier since you had to do stuff from scratch, rather than just using Godot or Unreal like we do today.

[@snooz221]

This is still the most epic thing of the week! One thing I would like to ask is why the game was canned. It's definitely interesting to see this type of lost media!

[@SuperWiiBros08]

This could've been a really well sold game for the gamecube

[@mikewzowske]

Yo it’s him

[@kickinkohai2503]

This is going to be awesome cause we already seen a unreleased game cube game but now a another one that’s crazy and also keep up the good work i like and can’t wait to see more of this content

[@らりるれろ-e5l]

What was the other one?

[@Hectonkhyres]

Damn. That is some solid videogame archaeology and you are uncovering something that would be lost forever without you doing exactly this. It may not be a lost work of Shakespeare but all art needs to be preserved. So, yeah, *thank you*.

[@Shizuka965]

you have the luck of a man that finds a gold coin from the middle age in the middle of a mountain

[@verdatum]

If I was Nintendo, I'd be concerned about similarities with Super Monkeyball (released for GameCube), and Uniracers, for the SNES. The latter is important because Nintendo was successfully sued by Pixar on the grounds that Pixar once made a short animation about anthropomorphic unicycles, and as such, deserved the rights to all fiction involving unicycles with human like behaviors. As a result, Nintendo was forced to pull the game from shelves, anddmlt development on any sequel games. Something they have upheld to this entire time. It's a shame because it was a super good game.

[@warlyfarly]

As someone watching this on the toilet, I can certify this as a hood classic.

[@spamanator666]

LOL at the way the says "it's a game, I KID YOU NOT, about monkeys riding unicycles." as if that is the craziest idea that any game has ever had...

[@magusware8721]

When you said about knowing anyone who could help and is experienced, the first name that came to mind was Modern Vintage Gamer. If anyone can help with this, it's probably him.

[@trucker912]

It’ll be amazing to see the community bring this game to life when you give it to the people these games were meant to play and have fun and enjoy your childhood the memories you’d create with your friends all the story’s that came from it im glad you can understand and give it back to gaming community instead of hoard it for yourself may your channel keep growing and store keep prospering.

[@gavin0308]

This is so cool, sad that this game was scrapped but it's so awesome it gets to see the light of day now.

[@xblast2701]

It saddens me a little that this never got to see the light, It could have been a really fun game

[@netherportals]

Game cube disk "I turned myself into a pickle" ....Nintendo "We can't release this, it's too funny"

[@WarrenMG]

I dont think this was accidental "i knew i needed to buy this"

[@SprocketGames]

This is an amazing find! Did he have any notes, sketches, drawings, etc? Good luck getting the data dumped and working!

[@Ablyeon2002]

My question is honestly why it wasn't finished like the exact reasons why this game sadly did not get finished and released cause this game honestly could have easily been a huge hit like this is seriously a pretty cool looking game and it saddens me that such potential was sadly not fully realized so yeah again my question for the Dad is why was this never finished and released? I assume he was someone that worked on it way back then so I hope he has an answer of some kind cause to be honest he is the only one really that could give any

[@4got10gaming8]

Hard4Games would definitely be my go to for dumping the game. Cool stuff!

[@Synth_Dragon]

Can you ask him if there's more data on a computer that might still be around in the home? That'd be the best hope in restoring the game.

[@azinyefantasy4445]

The company that made this demo has never made a game that wasnt fully funded by someone as a cartoon/movie tie in. 2 possible scenarios. Pickles was an inhouse original they showcased to get an angel investor. Pickles was gonna be a joint game/movie which was a popular thing to do at the time but the people making the movie dipped out last minute which left the rest of the game unfunded.

[@AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet]

This looks like a ton of fun, shame it has never been released or even pitched it would seem. Also plot twist: that guy didn't want money, he wanted his dad's legacy to finally be featured on a popular YT channel, and thus sold one-of-a-king item that could have costed dozens of thousands for a non-competitive price!

[@edvard-swift3645]

Thank you for being cool and releasing it instead of hording it, I bet the mod or dev community can get it flushed out😊

[@MrMarlowe3488]

the lock on the santa cruz games studios makes me think it's probably some post-game self-referential content like sea of stars or, more classically pokemon and earthbound (though those weren't post game) they probably were gonna do npc's of the developers and stuff and you would get a key after you beat the final boss or something

[@Home_Rowed]

If you don't already know of them, the KZbin channel Hard4Games should have experience with dumping NR Discs.

[@SortofGoodwithTech]

I can’t wait til a developer remakes this game I wish I could but I tried to make a 3d model for it and it didn’t go to well so until someone decompiles it I wont have any assets

[@lemono5954]

Scott the woz gonna assassinate this man 💀💀

[@VinnytotheK]

Try to ask the creator why they chose the name "Pickles" and if there were any more builds of the game than this.

[@bolderandkennyv2]

My big question is, when did Santa Cruz start working on Pickels?

[@KJFries17]

Cake you’re a legend for the GameCube community! Keep it up bro!

[@ModwalletOFFICIAL]

Could you make an ISO of the disk. I love seeing lost media being found and I really think this should be preserved

[@Wenlocktvdx]

Wow, a few days ago I watched a video from Hard4games. They were able to get several levels to work and dumped that version. I think yours could be more advanced as you don’t fall through the boardwalk

[@Cyranek]

i want cakehoarders luck

[@Martahasleftthegame]

Got it working on my modded GC and made some discoveries, I might edit this further the more i discover, there are some really janky levels where virtually nothing spawns, if you hold both triggers you go into some dev kinda mode, and if you go into the options there are 2 levels with six worlds, and if you press A it spawns them, level 3 on world 2 seems to start a very broken cutscnene. also in the first level if you go out of bounds and go right, it wont crash but it will show a pirate ship with skarks.

[@CjE-d4s]

How did you “accidentally” buy it? You were told what it was before purchase. Its like saying you accidentally bought a Big Mac, all you did was go to McDonald’s and ordered it and paid for it. What a crazy accident!

[@GBA4848]

How did you find this!? Your so good at finding stuff! Just subed

[@local9]

03:17 Ninja monkey, so skilled, never seen, learnt from John Cena.

[@Botanic_Ring_45]

I'm here because for the spanish news. I grew with a gamecube, so i came out here to see that rare game you get!

[@Seichensi]

Kinda sad that some games (especially good/interesting ones), might never see a daylight.

[@patjackmanesq]

Modern Vintage Gamer on KZbin is the guy to go to for dissecting games

[@DanTheMan827]

Hard4Games might be able to help dump this, it’s exactly the type of thing they cover.

[@BYin541]

Matt K.C. He’s working on a Lego Island dump, but also a lot with platform video games.

[@joyconboyz1409]

Ask if he still retained any concept art, and if there are not credits, who all worked on the game

[@Daniel15au]

"Santa Cruz beach boardwalk, in the warm California sun. BOARDWALK!"

[@TekNikEOSD]

how does one even come up with the idea for monkeys on unicycles and naming it pickles

[@grimrot]

This is so cool! Would be a great idea to get a capture card to get some better quality footage of the game. Thank you for sharing!

[@warpster7656]

You have earned my Like for being a good member of humanity and dumping these finds. Thank you

[@ZorroVulpes]

I'm surprised this didn't end with hyperrealistic blood and everyone dying

[@TheTreyBlue]

You can maybe try to ask Hard4games, if they can't do it they know people who can

[@purplenumberF]

Oh hey, I have those same Pikachu figures! they were produced under license in 1998 by TOMY for both the JP and CN market. Yours is also branded with Audley, TOMY's Chinese market distributor. I believe the scrunchy pose is supposed to be him firing a lightning bolt.

[@LordDiscord]

When the " my dad is a Nintendo employee" is true

[@BlackHatProduction61]

Did anyone else think this was gonna be a creepy pasta thing?

[@-INK-]

I nominate Modern Vintage Gamer. For the sake of safety and data preservation please try not to use the dev kit too much until a full memory dump can be done.

[@TGVBT640]

3:20 "WaltApe, we need to cook"

[@DoctorMario606]

This game gave me some SERIOUS Wario World vibes

[@mioarajitca3668]

I think you should clean the disk, maybe this is the reason why you can't play the rest of the levels

[@LifeOfJimbo]

is that monkey target music in the background lol

[@johnbelwell2461]

This game had a lot of potential to be great, it gives me that old late night gaming feel i've had as a kid playing nice games like Spyro The Dragon etc since the noon with a smile on my face.

[@dandastardly2792]

Congrats on the find

[@QUADRAXIS666]

What a wonderful discovery, have any devs come across this video and said anything about it?

[@cakehoarder]

check out my latest pickles video bro! i spent a day with the the devs!

[@coz-qlayz]

What an amazing and interesting story @cake !!!!

[@Mewhenthewhenthe-b5d]

"My dad works at Nintendo!" No but this is really cool dude!!

[@elkaiozen]

if at all possible please get this into a rom to archive so it isn't eventually lost forever

[@Regi_Goes]

Thank you for getting this dumped. A lot of collectors like to hoard this type of thing so only they can play it.

[@MoffieGirl]

Careful Nintendo might send the Pinkertons after you like Mattel

[@Dr.Quarex]

How could Nintendo have not immediately wanted to turn this into a Donkey Kong extended family game? Diddy Kong Stacking! Sounds like a database but you know

[@LimakPan]

Cool to see a forgotten game. Though relax a bit man! You don't have to describe every little thing that happens exactly the way we can see it happen. Don't let the KZbin meta bog you down.

[@LateNightPerson]

If you're looking for a dumper, I recommend Modern Vintage Gamer

[@yunodiewtf]

Looks like you got a WAY earlier sample than what was mentioned in the interview

[@Play_Now]

Idk about gamecube games, but there is a way to dump GBA games using an r4 card and a DS with a gba slot

[@Clijy]

Why am I so impressed with the boardwalk animation?? lmao

[@sephirosu]

People who share their ROMs with the community are the real MVPs

[@ivanangelov8825]

I am puzzled how could a game developed to such extend could be considered prototype. This for me is early alpha, that with some fixes and wrapping direction of development could be finished by 2 people in 3-5 months.

[@moracomole8090]

Feels like a fever dream to find an unreleased game